Find equation of motion using. Lagrangian given equation is
where a, b, and c are arbitrary constants but subject to the condition that. What are the equations of motion? Examine particularly the two cases and , . What is the physical system described by the above Lagrangian? Show that the usual Lagrangian for this system as defined by Eq. (1.56) is related to by a point transformation (cf. Derivation 10). What is the significance of the condition on the value of ?
It's two dimensional. If there was only
What are the equations of motion?
) Should I find a equation for
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Your mistake is that you did a second derivative of
Since you have two degrees of freedom (
The two equations you get this way are the equations of motion.
Another mistake is that you are writing total derivatives where you would need to write partial ones; the only total derivative is the time derivative. Since you are using them as if they were partial derivatives, this is inconsequential in your calculation, though.
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